A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The best place for scenic views of the DMZ and North Korea.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

This historic Chinese tower was said to have been haunted by fox spirits but is now haunted by a grisly murder.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.